1963

I wish I were reading this in October rather than writing it in August. In which case I would have finished painting the house and would not be sweltering in 100-degree heat that I know foretells the first frost in about two weeks.

The nation's public relations mill has been dormant this summer if the number of releases now lying on my desk are any indication. Let me dip blindly into the pile for this year's first offering ... Aaaaand, it's Mickey Friedman. Mickey has been named a vice president in commercial banking at the Continental Bank of Chicago. He received his MBA at Northwestern in 1966, was elected an officer of the bank in 1968 and a second vice president in 1970.

In the same field, Joe Kennedy has been named assistant controller of the First National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans. Joe first joined the bank in 1971 and was made accounting officer in May 1972. He has an MBA in accounting from Stanford Graduate School of Business and previously was audit supervisor for the Boeing Corp.

The Rev. Dave Goodwillie and wife Kristin reported in May the arrival of Trucia Anya. Dave had just completed two years at Berkeley where he earned his master's in divinity at Graduate Theological Union. In the recent past he has been director of a counseling center in Yarmouth, Mass., and worked at an Outward Bound school. He's in Boston now beginning work on a doctorate. Amen.

Dave Smoyer, after stints as assistant to the president of the North American Soccer League and associate director of athletics at Yale, has joined Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, Mass., as business manager and soccer coach. He'll also help the baseball mentor and work in college counseling and admissions.

Gerry Kochansky has been promoted assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, where he has been supervising psychologist since 1968. In addition, he has been consulting psychologist to the church vocations committee for the New England Synod of the Lutheran Church in America for the past four years. An associate in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Gerry also is research psychologist in school's Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory.

Meanwhile, Fred Jarrett is serving as a U.S. Army surgeon in Seoul, Korea, and teaching voluntarily in the surgery department of the Seoul National University Hospital. Fred obviously has been getting around. To begin with, he married Hungarian-born Esther Szeolleosy-Toth in June 1972. Esther is an immunogeneticist, has done research at Children's Hospital Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and worked at a radiobiological institute in Holland. As for Fred, he was serving as a surgical resident at Mass General and as chief resident at a hospital in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1971-72. The Dutch Surgical Society thought enough of his talents to elect him to special membership. Through all this, Fred was delivering addresses on ulcer disease (in Dutch) and to an international conference in Strasbourg (in French). In April this year he was in Japan to lecture on vascular surgery. Don't wear out your passport, Fred.

By virtue of another appointment at Connecticut General Life, Bob Burgess, who occupied this space some time ago, appears again. He has been made actuary, group pension operations. Bob joined the company at graduation and has had several positions; he is also an instructor in insurance at the University of Connecticut. He and Judith are the parents of a boy and a girl, and live at 4 Paxton Road, West Hartford 06107.

The biology department at Rhode Island University has taken on Skip French as an assistant instructor. Skip earned his master's degree in biology in June from Connecticut Central College. He will teach and work toward his doctorate at Rhode Island.

I think the grapevine probably has informed most of you who follow such things that one of the prime reasons "Deep Throat" was banned in New York was Bill Purcell. Our own Bill, who has metamorphosed into a rather modish assistant district attorney in the Big Apple, was responsible for hounding this film from Gotham's screens and into the gutter. Ollie was thoughtfully presented an appropriate token of the Class' esteem at the reunion banquet. "I'd like to say something," he responded humbly, "but I think it would be censored."

With all the farms up here going out of business, you'd think Barry Blackwell, that native son of Vermont, would know better than to build a silo. But that's what he's gone and done over to Guilford, Vt„ just down the rut aways from Brattleboro. This is a special sort of silo, however, equipped for luxury escapism. Dave Schaefer designed the brochure, and if you want to see about renting or leasing it, drop the Baron a line at the Certain-teed Saint Gobain Insulation Corp., Valley Forge, Penn. I kid you not.

Good words are being said about DaveDawley's A Nation of Lords, a Doubleday Anchor paperback that has been out for several months. It tells of the rise of the Conservative Vice Lords, with whom Dave worked for two years in the late sixties, as the strongest street youth gang in Chicago. The book is largely the Lords story, told in their own taped vernacular. If you're a city cat, it's worth reading. If you're not, read it any way.

Finally, a tragic word that Steve Garland was seriously injured and his wife was killed in a car accident in August in the state of Washington while he was attending a conference. Steve is an assistant professor of math at the College. His wife worked part time for Dartmouth, as well. All strength to Steve in healing the scars and resuming life.

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